
Weixin photo from Jianshen Qu Ba, unknown origin, complete article
China is a separate world and becoming even more distant. This is especially true with the internet. Wechat 微信 is part of China’s social media and a very good example. Their information ecosystem, heavily monitored and censored by the government, is often smartphone ecosystem, and not web site based. I occasionally monitor Chinese social media and often read some of their articles.
While the content can be very good, for fitness articles they almost always use white models. I find this very strange. There are more than enough jacked Chinese guys and beautiful Chinese women in Asia. The photos also have no sources.
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What Can Fitness Change, Go Do Fitness, Wechat: Translation
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I really do not mind advertising, provided they are clearly marked as advertising. In this case National Post created a news article that is indistinguishable from their other news articles, except at the end of the article I found out that it was an advertisement. I was deceived by the National Post’s native advertising, 2

National Post deceptive advertising in their Driving section, 2017 Sept 30, photo 1

National Post deceptive advertising in their Driving section, 2017 Sept 30, photo 2

National Post deceptive advertising in their Driving section, 2017 Sept 30, photo 3
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National Post uses Deceiptful Ads in their News Articles
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